The ABC website The Drum recently gave Dr Rodney Syme space to continue his public defence of his actions in respect to the 2009 death of Steve Guest in Melbourne. Syme admits to providing Guest with Nembutal but claims he did so for palliative reasons, saying ‘it was not my intention’ that he should end his life

"No one should be reliant on Dr Death" was the closing line of Dr Nicholas Tonti-Filippini's rebuttal of the recent media in The Age newspaperand elsewhere that surrounds the admittance in late April by Melbourne doctor, Rodney Syme, that he had provided nembutal to a terminally ill Victorian man in 2005.